Today, I deleted a load of junk that was messing up my mother's computer. I don't know how I'm going to tell her I accidentally wiped out all of her wedding photos. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Today, my computer stopped working. Me, the technology challenged one, decided to do a system recovery on it hoping that I could make it better. Turns out, system recovery means deleting all the files off the computer including family photos, music and assignments and starting fresh. FML
Today, my husband accidentally erased some pictures from our hard drive. No worries, nothing major: just everything from our wedding and the birth of our first child. FML
Today, I lost two terabytes' worth of photos to a friend's incompetence. He said he could save me some money and fix my slow computer for free. He ended up wiping the hard drive, and along with it, my photography portfolio from the last five years. FML
Today, I was trying to show my mother how much detail I'd put into a group project that I had to present tomorrow. I then deleted the project, thinking that I was just removing it from my phone. Everyone's research and my three days of hard work went with it. FML
Today, my parents got me a new computer for my birthday. They also took the liberty of throwing out my old computer, with 8 years of photos, videos, music, documents, emails, and bookmarks on it. But that's okay, I had a backup. They threw that out too. FML
Today, while trying to fix a corrupted USB hard drive with my wife’s computer I accidentally wiped her laptop drive instead of clearing the external drive. I’m not allowed on her computers anymore. FML
Today, I got a new computer because my old one crashed, deleting all music, photos, and documents. I still had all my music on my iPod though, and went to sync it to the new computer. By accident, my younger brother pulled the cord out before it was done, deleting all 3,000 songs forever. FML
Today, my external hard drive broke. My husband tried to fix it, and the computer told him he needed to format it. Apparently he didn't know what formatting does, so he did it. I'm a wedding photographer and had a full summer of unfinished wedding photography on there. FML
Today, I let my mother use my computer for school work. Later that day my mom asks me what's wrong with the computer. I look at it, only seeing a "Welcome to Windows XP" screen. She said that she saw a blue screen and pressed L and C when it asked her to. My mom managed to clear my hard drive. FML
Today, I accidentally deleted my landlord's pictures of his child's graduation, girlfriend, daughter, and vacation when he asked me to delete a video off his phone. FML
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Top comments
billyboef 10
I sure hope she has some kind of backup...
Migole 36
1. Perhaps you and your mother both should learn about the magic thing that is backup (external hdd, cloud whatever) 2. I hope you didn't touch the computer after you realized this and immedediately talked to a professional, because as long as you didn't overwrite the "free storage" they might still be saved
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Comments (105)
xRiverSongx 17
You don't.
thecman25 14
you just went full retard
pitapizzaparty 18
Say the virus destroyed the files
ThePols 11
To the rescue! Don't sweat it, I got you covered. You'll need to go to the dmv, legally change your name, get your passport, move to the remote mountains of Nepal and live out the rest of your days as a sheep herder. There are no other options.
Ayena 5
Rest In Peace love
Ki11erC 18
When you delete something in windows the area on the disk just gets marked as free space, the data is still there till window overwrites it. Million and one file recovery programs out there these days both free and paid. Just dot write anything to the drive you are trying to recover from or you might find yourself overwriting the "free space" that contains the photos.
SoundAlchemist 21
Chill OP. Just use this free software called Recuva. It will recover the images and other data very easily :)
mstoffel 13
EASEUS makes a data recovery program that I use at work to recover files that have been completely erased. There is also a program called recuva from piriform that does the same thing. The EASEUS tool is better, but the piriform tool is free.
cherron 5
Seeing as she wasn't her own photographer, the photographer probably gave her a disk with all the photos on it.
TPrice21 2
You could show her the FML page. That would get the message across.